Ivory Coast wood carved chest

Ivory Coast wood carved chest

$1,421.00

Ivory Coast wood carved chest

Size:

350mm High X 710mm Long X 480mm Wide

Weight:

6,1Kg

Detail: Wood carved chest with lid and baby

Ivory Coast art

Ivory Coast wood carved chest . The Baoulé, the Senoufo and the Dan peoples are skilled at carving wood and each culture produces wooden masks in wide variety. The Ivorian people use masks to represent animals in caricature to depict deities, or to represent the souls of the departed.

As the masks are held to be of great spiritual power, it is considered a taboo for anyone other than specially trained persons or chosen ones to wear or possess certain masks. These ceremonial masks are each thought to have a soul, or life force, and wearing these masks is thought to transform the wearer into the entity the mask represents.

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Ivory Coast wood carved chest

Detail: Wood carved chest with lid and baby

Ivory Coast art

Ivory Coast wood carved chest . The Baoulé, the Senoufo and the Dan peoples are skilled at carving wood and each culture produces wooden masks in wide variety. The Ivorian people use masks to represent animals in caricature to depict deities, or to represent the souls of the departed.

As the masks are held to be of great spiritual power, it is considered a taboo for anyone other than specially trained persons or chosen ones to wear or possess certain masks. These ceremonial masks are each thought to have a soul, or life force, and wearing these masks is thought to transform the wearer into the entity the mask represents.